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Study Detail for St. Petersburg to Tampa

A beige triangle with verticle white lines, illustrating a bridge rushing off into the distance, is centered inside a roughly painted blue circle.
Artist

Ralston Crawford

Date

1939

Medium

Gouache on paper

Object Type

Work on Paper

Dimensions

H- 10 3/4 x W-8 3/8 in. (27.3 x 21.3 cm)

Artist's Country of Birth

Canada

Collecting Area

American Modernism

Credit Line

The Vilcek Foundation

Accession Number

VF2016.03.01

Copyright

© Estate of Ralston Crawford/VAGA, New York

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A beige triangle with verticle white lines, illustrating a bridge rushing off into the distance, is centered inside a roughly painted blue circle.

About the Object

This brilliant blue gouache is a study for a painting of the Gandy Bridge. In this pared down sketch, Crawford captured the rushing perspective of the bridge, with vertical white supports that lend a rhythmic progression as it disappears into blue that serves as both sea and sky. The original span, which connected Tampa to St. Petersburg, Florida, was built in 1924 and dismantled in 1975.

 

Additional Information

Crawford created the related painting St. Petersburg to Tampa the year before completing the study, illustrating the often-nonlinear progression of his artistic process. St. Petersburg to Tampa, 1938, is in the collection of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden.

The Artist;
Estate of the Artist;
By descent to the Artist’s son, Neelon Crawford, Wyoming;
[Owings-Dewey Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM];

New York. Salander-O’Reilly Galleries. Ralston Crawford. May 2001.

New York. Salander-O’Reilly Galleries. Ralston Crawford: Works on Paper. June 2007, cat. no. 1.

Agee, William C. and Lewis Kachur. Masterpieces of American Modernism: From the Vilcek Collection. London: Merrell, 2013, pp. 224-225, 262, ill. p. 225.

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